Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 06:02:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I agree. This seems entirely reasonable to me. Both the behavior and
>> the inherent documentation are better with unit files, and systemd is
>> the default init system so that's an advantage for a lot of our users.
>> That said, if anyone does object to this, please do speak up and
>> explain why this would be a problem.
> There is a little technical detail that should be handled though:
> User might have made change to /etc/default/xxx that is sourced
> by /etc/init.d/xxx.
> Such change must not be ignored by the unit files, because we require
> configuration to be preserved across upgrade.
Yes, good call. This is partly an unrelated issue in that anyone adding a
unit file in the past also should have thought about this problem and
tackled it in some way, but we're likely to make the problem more visible
by encouraging a bunch of additional packages to add unit files.
Do you have an idea for wording to use for this?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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